I mean, this is a blog post not a news article, and it is at least a well sourced Reddit comment. Good video though, very convincing, thanks for the link.
Text version of the video, with links: https://www.patreon.com/rebecca/posts/dobby-grave-is-166521289
OP is an infamous ban evader, they just spam post a bunch of articles from (mostly, but not exclusively) the Guardian, so I doubt this is OP’s agenda. The more concerning thing is the media, the BBC news homepage had 2 stories about this (and there were 3 this morning).
who the people proposing these policies
Tories.
why they’re so opposed to fun, nightlife, and supporting long-standing traditions
Because they’re Tories.
On another note, do the server has a profile somewhere like mastodon or something we could check in case it goes down in future.
Someone did actually reach out to my personal Mastodon account to ask what was happening.
Like florge said, there is a Matrix space that mostly serves this function, but that does require you to have a Matrix account so isn’t the best for public notices. It’d be nice to have a page (eg status.feddit.uk) where I could put messages about what’s happening. I’ll need to look to see if something like that exists.
I did and it was surprisingly pretty good.
There’s a setting in Lemmy that only let’s logged in users make API requests. I’m going to activate that over night for now.
Every Harry Potter fan I’ve met already prerequisites any talk of the franchise with ‘I don’t agree with Rowling, but…’, they already know, they’d just rather support the eradication of trans people than give up their children’s toys.